Eliza of Charleston, Captain William Flagg.-She was taken by the same privateer, going also to Gibraltar for instructions to proceed up the Mediterranean. The judi cial proceedings of her cause were sent to Madrid with those of captain Brooks, to be conjointly arranged. The cargo of this vessel has been landed at Ceuta, and I have opposed its being sold until a determination is agreed to by the ministers at Madrid. The vessel is released and now here.

Elizabeth of Philadelphia, Captain Garner.-She was taken coming from London and brought here; and was: going to Sevilla to load with fruit on account of a house at Hamburgh. She has no proper sailing documents, but only a certificate that she is American property by purchase in London. I have opposed her being condemned, and wrote to London, demanding the documents wanting. Independent of the difficulties arisen on that account, this admiralty wants to condemn her for not having the passports required by the 17th article of the late treaty of commerce and amity between the United States and the king of Spain; but I have shown to the court she could not possibly be provided with it.

Mary Ann of Philadelphia, Captain Smith.-She wa taken by the Grand Dorade French privateer, going from Saffi to Lisbon with wheat, and brought in here. Her papers are perfectly right, and the French seem perfectly satisfied on that head, which made me expect her immediate release; when they have suddenly started difficulties, which are nothing but cavilling and chicane. The cargo is on account of a neutral established at Lisbon, and is to be sold, and the amount given security for. This is the vessel I mentioned in my last, which had had the mate and crew taken out on the high sea, and nothing has since then been heard respecting them.

Commerce of Boston, Captain Langlois, and another American vessel-have been taken and carried into Algesiras, going for and steering towards the Mediterranean. I have wrote to be acquainted with the particulars, and act accordingly.

Extract of a Letter from B. H. Phillips, Esquire, dated Curacoa, 25th March, 1797, and addressed to the Secretary of State.

SIR,-Within a few days past, the following vessels have been sent in here by cruisers under French colours, in consequence of a proclamation done by Victor Hughes at Guadaloupe, in the last month, and of which no doubt you have had notice ere this.-The vessels sent in areship Fame, captain Joseph Brown, belonging to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from whence she sailed the January, bound with a cargo of lumber to Grenada, where she sold her cargo, and received a return cargo of sugar and rum, which she has on board.

Brig Lady Washington, Captain Mayo Garrish, belonging to Newburyport, sailed from Charleston, South Carolina, the 29th of January last, bound with a cargo of rice, staves, pork and shingles, for a market, and sold her cargo at Barbadoes, where he received she has on board.

sugar and rum, which

Schooner Two Friends, Captain Van Ransley, (the captain was kept on board the privateer, and is not yet arrived) belonging to New York, sailed from Wilmington, North Carolina, 20th of January, loaded with a cargo of turpentine, pitch, tar, tobacco and lumber, cleared out for New York, but by letters said to be in possession of the captors, was bound to Martinico.

Extract of a Letter from Frederick Folger, Esq. appointed Consul for the United States, at Aux Cayes, to the Secretary of State, dated February 10, 1797.

"HEARING with pain of the captures made on the vessels of the United States, and brought into the different ports of this island, I endeavoured to obtain a list of them; but as they are carried into ports distant from my resi-` dence, it was a long time before I could succeed; however, I have the honour to transmit you one, although imperfect. I wish it may be acceptable; it exhibits a melancholy picture of the hazardous state of our commerce, which it seems, has been always a prey under some pretext or other to the belligerent powers."

No. 5.

SCHEDULE

Of the Names of American Vessels captured by the French, and of the Circumstances attending them, extracted from the Philadelphia Gazette, and the Gazette of the United States, and commencing with July, 1796.

1. Ship Hope, Coward, of Philadelphia, from Baltimore to Port-au-Prince, sent into Leogane.

2. Brig Friendship, Ryley, of Philadelphia, sent into Port-de-Paix.

3. Schooner Betsy, M'Culloch, from Jamaica, plunder

ed at sea.

4. Brig Cornplanter, Cohoon, from Demarara, bound home, was sent to Guadaloupe, and condemned.

5. Brig Glasgow, Codwise, carried into Leogane, and condemned.

6. Brig Charlotte, King, of New York, carried into Leogane and condemned.

7. Sloop Nancy, Small, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane.

8. Sloop Sincerity, Boyd, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane, and condemned.

9. Sloop Delia, Huggins, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane, and condemned.

10. Sloop Dolphin, Moray, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane.

11. Brig Triton, Flinn, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane, and condemned.

12. Brig Experiment, Huston, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane, and condemned.

13. Schooner Bride, Robert, of Philadelphia.

14. Brig Industry, Massey, of Baltimore, carried into Leogane and condemned.

15. Schooner Hannah, Phillips, of Baltimore, carried into Leogane.

16. Schooner Alataea, Mann, of Georgetown, (S. C.) was carried into Leogane.

17. Brig Eliza, Whitefield, of Wilmington, (N. C.) was carried into Leogane, and condemned.

18. Sloop Joanna, Hunt, of Providence, was carried into Leogane, and condemned.

19. Sloop Sally, Smith, of Providence, was carried into Leogane.

20. Schooner Ann, Gibbs, of Boston, was carried into Leogane and condemned; having been bound to Port-auPrince, with horses.

21. Schooner Juno, of Boston, was carried into Leogane, and condemned.

22. Sloop Britannia, Young, of N. Yarmouth, was carried into Leogane.

23. The Amie, óf Boston, was condemned at Leogane. 24. The schooner Two Friends, Place, was plundered at sea of every thing the privateers could take.

25. The brig Polly, Watson, of Philadelphia, was captured by a French privateer, but recaptured by a British frigate and she was again captured, carried into Petit Guave, and there abandoned by the captain.

26. The brig Brutus, Aborn, of New York, from St. Marc, with a cargo of provisions, dry goods and cash, valued at ten thousand dollars, and the vessel at five thousand, condemned.

27. Schooner Regulator, Stanwood, on her passage from New York, was captured and carried into Leogane. The cargo was taken without payment, and the vessel detained fifty days, during which time the mate and all the crew died.

28. Brig Keranhapuch, Lillibridge, of Philadelphia, was captured, carried into Meriguane, and her cargo of provisions, valued at 12,600 dollars, and vessel at 9000 dollars, were both condemned. She was from Philadelphia.

29. Brig Theodosia, Vansize, of Philadelphia, was carried into Basseterre, Guadaloupe, and condemned with her cargo, without a trial.

30. Brig Flora, was carried into St. Domingo.

31. Brig Nymph, Sullivan, of Philadelphia, was captured and carried into Petit Guave. Her cargo of provisions and dry goods was valued at 10,000 dollars.

32. Brig Franklin, Peck, of Philadelphia, from Port-auPrince, with a cargo of sugar, valued at 5,400 dollars, was carried into Meriguane. The vessel and cargo were condemned. The vessel was valued at 4000 dollars.

33. Schooner Catharine, Towne, was captured and carried into St. Domingo.

34. Schooner Mayflower, belonging to Norfolk, and bound thither from an English port, with a cargo of coffee, was captured and carried into Leogane.

35. Brig Mercury, Brooke, of Norfolk, from Cadiz to Gibraltar, was captured by a French privateer, and carried into Tariffa.

36. Schooner Ariel, Compton, of and from Baltimore, bound to Martinique, was captured and carried into Guadaloupe, where vessel and cargo were condemned.

37. Schooner Ranger, Brown, was detained at St. Martins, and her crew confined, because she had no sea letter.

38. Schooner Friendship, Harlow, from Martinique for Boston, was carried into St. Martins under pretence of her not having a sea letter, but on producing it she was liberated, though not before she had been plundered of various articles. Two other American vessels at that time in St. Martins, were condemned, because they could not produce such a document.

39. Brig Nancy, May, of New York, was carried into Meriguane, whilst she was on a voyage from St. Marc's with a cargo of provisions and dry goods, valued at 20,000 dollars: the vessel was valued at 5,000. They were condemned.

40. Brig Mary, Boyle, of Baltimore, was carried into Meriguane with a cargo of provisions, valued at 6,000 dollars. The vessel was valued at 6,000 dollars. She was from Baltimore. They were condemned.

41. Brig Freemason, Wire, of New York, from Jeremie, with a cargo of provisions and dry goods, valued at 26,000 dollars, which with the vessel valued at 3,000 were condemned.

42. Schooner Rainbow, Howland, of New Bedford, was carried into l'Ance-a-veau with a cargo of oil from Cape Francois to Petit Guave ;-cleared.

43. Schooner Catharine, Story, of Philadelphia, carried into l'Ance-a-veau with a cargo of provisions and dry goods, and condemned.

44. Sloop Jenny, Adams, of Boston, was carried into l'Ance-a-veau.